Archive

  • Modellers search how much worse COVID could get

    25 June 2021

    European insurers describe pandemic stress tests in 2020 SFCRs

  • BaFin reveals German insurers' €47bn infrastructure investment stake

    16 June 2021

    Regulator also reveals industry's alternative allocations - but none yet in cryptocurrencies

  • The real deal - Europe's insurers primed for G7 infrastructure plan

    14 June 2021

    Leaders of the 'G7' economies announced the 'Build Back Better World' global infrastructure programme, a 'step-change' in their approach to 'mobilise private-sector capital' for the asset class as never before. Europe's insurers stand ready to help, David Walker reports.

  • 'Significant shunt' in inflation on the cards, Signal Iduna warns

    09 June 2021

    Mid-tier German insurers reveal fall in yields - and how to beat it

  • Chart of the Week - How Europe's mid-sized insurers invest their general accounts

    04 June 2021

    General account allocations analysed for 140 different categorisations of European insurers

  • Royal London's journey into commercial real estate loans for MA portfolio

    26 May 2021

    UK insurer has a "constructive dialogue" with the PRA regarding its MA application, and hopes commercial real estate loans will form part of its MA portfolio, Insurance Asset Risk has learnt. Vincent Huck reports

  • Chart of the week

    21 May 2021

    Why markets, not pandemics, might keep Thomas Buberl awake

  • Cattolica SFCR reveals sharp change to BTP sensitivity in 2020

    20 May 2021

    New CFO joins to replace Enrico Mattioli

  • Generali CFO flags more insourcing as investment boutique skills expand

    20 May 2021

    Borean looking for more M&A of "high-fees" businesses

  • Aviva lists out MA investments, and a sharp solvency decline without them

    19 May 2021

    Group boosted investment risk-taking in 2020